[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 132 (Wednesday, September 24, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1036-D1037]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
President's fiscal year 2004 supplemental request for Iraq and 
Afghanistan, receiving testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of 
Defense; General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; 
General John Abizaid, Commanding General, U.S. Central Command; and Dov 
S. Zakheim, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).
  Hearings continue on Thursday, September 25, 2003.
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY REPORT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the findings and recommendations of the Panel to Review Sexual 
Misconduct Allegations at the United States Air Force Academy, 
including a reporting policy outlined in the Agenda for Change, and the 
proposed Cadets Advocating Sexual Integrity and Education (CASIE) 
program, after receiving testimony from former Representative Tillie K. 
Fowler, Colonel John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.), Major General Michael J. 
Nardotti, Jr., USA (Ret.), Patton Boggs, and Sally L. Satel, American 
Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C, Josiah Bunting, III, 
Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, and Anita M. Carpenter, Indiana 
Coalition Against Sexual Assault (INCASA), and Laura L. Miller, RAND 
Corporation, both of Indianapolis, Indiana, all on behalf of the Panel 
to Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the United States Air Force 
Academy.
SARBANES-OXLEY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing on the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (P.L. 107-204), 
designed to protect investors by improving accuracy and reliability of 
corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, focusing on 
reform of corporate governance, financial reporting and auditing, after 
receiving testimony from Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., 
PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, New York; Edward Nusbaum, Grant 
Thornton, LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Sean Harrigan, California Public 
Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration, 
Sacramento; and William J. McDonough, Public Company Accounting 
Oversight Board, and Sarah Teslik, Council of Institutional Investors, 
both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  A bill to provide for an extension of the Federal transit program 
pending the reauthorization of the program;
  A bill to reauthorize the Defense Production Act of 1950, with an 
amendment; and A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act in order 
to prevent identity theft, to improve the use of and consumer access to 
consumer reports, to enhance the accuracy of consumer reports, to limit 
the sharing of certain consumer information, to improve financial 
education and literacy.
9/11 AFTERMATH/FEMA OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the 
findings of the GAO concerning the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency's financial allocations and activities after the terrorist 
attacks on September 11th, and to conduct oversight on the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency's effectiveness since becoming part of the 
Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Michael 
D. Brown, Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response, and 
Richard L. Skinner, Deputy Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Homeland Security; JayEtta Z. Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure 
Issues, General Accounting Office; Dale W. Shipley, Ohio Emergency 
Management Agency, Columbus, on behalf of the National Emergency 
Management Association; and Bud Larson, New York City Office of 
Management and Budget, New York.
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine a five year plan for the current situation in Iraq, focusing on 
the President's proposed supplement request, after receiving testimony

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from L. Paul Bremer, Administrator, Coalition Provisional Authority for 
Iraq.
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS IN IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing regarding 
the development of democratic institutions in Iraq and the Middle East, 
focusing on the political process, transitional justice, civil service, 
and economic decision making, after receiving testimony from Noah 
Feldman, New York University School of Law, New York, New York; Phebe 
Marr, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.; Isam al Khafaji, 
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Rami G. Khouri, Daily 
Star, Beirut, Lebanon.
SOCIAL SECURITY: GOVERNMENT PENSION OFFSET/WINDFALL ELIMINATION 
PROVISIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine discrimination against employees and retirees relating to 
social security government pension offset and windfall elimination 
provisions, focusing on the purpose of these provisions, how they work 
and issues that should be evaluated when considering legislative 
changes, after receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein; Jo Anne B. 
Barnhart, Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Charles L. 
Fallis, National Association of Retired Federal Employees (NARFE), 
Alexandria, Virginia; Kenneth Rocks, Fraternal Order of Police, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Julia Worcester, Columbia, Maine.
CIVIC EDUCATION STANDARDS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine conflicts taking place over state 
history standards and history textbooks, focusing on how standards and 
textbooks influence education, after receiving testimony from Sandra 
Stotsky, Massachusetts Department of Education, Malden; Robert 
Hagopian, Scotts Valley Middle School, Scotts Valley, California; and 
Diane Ravitch, New York University, and Gilbert Sewall, American 
Textbook Council, both of New York, New York.
INDIAN CHILD PROTECTION AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1601, to amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence 
Prevention Act to provide for the reporting and reduction of child 
abuse and family violence incidences on Indian reservations, after 
receiving testimony from Woodro Hopper, Acting Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Management-Indian Affairs; Charles W. 
Grim, Director of the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Mark Lewis, Hopi Tribe, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; Garland 
Brunoe, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, 
Warm Springs; and Terry L. Cross, National Indian Child Welfare 
Association, Portland, Oregon.
ELDER ABUSE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, Corrections and 
Victims Rights concluded a hearing to examine elder abuse, neglect and 
exploitation, focusing on law enforcement measures to prevent the 
victimization of the elderly, after receiving testimony from Daniel L. 
Mihalko, Inspector In Charge, Congressional and Public Affairs, United 
States Postal Inspection Service; James G. Huse, Jr., Inspector 
General, Social Security Administration; Christopher D. Chiles, Cabell 
County, West Virginia, on behalf of the National District Attorneys 
Association; James A. Wright, National Sheriffs Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Lori A. Stiegel, Commission on Law and Aging, 
on behalf of the American Bar Association, and Douglas C. Holbrook, 
AARP, both of Washington, D.C.